Registering a Locality Based .US Domain? 20
waffle zero asks: "I've been looking for a simple domain to host personal photos and
journals. I gave up on getting a .COM or .NET TLD and started looking into one like firstnamelastname.ny.us. NeuStar manages the .US TLD and sub-domains like los-angeles.ca.us are run by third
parties (mostly regional ISPs and universities). My local municipality is a small
city so there is no 'delegated zone'. The only ones I have seen frequently are of the form
k12.ny.us used by primary schools. I would like to hear users experiences working with locality based domains and what it would take to run one for my area."
UK (Score:2, Insightful)
Unfortunately AFAIK the problem over here is worse, I'm not even sure how to register a foo.uk domain rather than the usual
Hope we can figure something out
Re:UK (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:UK (Score:2, Insightful)
& to add to that list... (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.tk/
nic.us (Score:5, Informative)
forms. You'll need affidavits from your town/city
government though.
http://nic.us/register/locality.html
You might want to mail russ nelson? (Score:5, Informative)
NY ALEXANDRIA-BAY.NY.US. nelson@crynwr.com
Since this is clearly an "individual geek" operation like your own, he might be able to help.
Sorry Russ if this is unwelcome!
Re:You might want to mail russ nelson? (Score:5, Informative)
Do I sound too cynical? I hope so. I don't want there to be any room for more cynicism where the
-russ
Clout is the Chicago answer for chi.il.us (Score:4, Informative)
They sponsored the Clout Project [chi.il.us] where anybody can apply for a domain in chi.il.us.
Would just .us be ok? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why? (Score:1)
How about the .name TLD? (Score:3, Informative)
Why not just get something in the
"gave up on .com or .net"? (Score:2)
My city didn't have a domain when I started out, so I went with the county, which did have one. It's worked great for me.
Dynamic DNS, good dsl, and your own server (Score:3, Insightful)
It's going to be hard... (Score:2)
I've been using a
Re:It's going to be hard... (Score:4, Informative)
If you want to register in an existing locality, you need to go to the US NIC (http://www.nic.us/register/locality.html) and check out the list of delegated managers (http://www.nic.us/delegated_managers/delegated_s
Each locality is free to charge their own rate. Many charge nothing.
Names under the k12.ST.us are controlled differently, and names under gen.ST.us (for non-profits) are handled by Neustar directly and are supposed to always be free.